tract ** Available Now! **

Jane Hartshorn

Publication date October 2017

Price:

£5.00 Including P&P (Uk)

ISBN:978-0-9927072-5-5

tract is an honest and shocking collection of narrative poems documenting the
medical encounters that accompany diagnosis and prognosis, alongside the lived
experience of chronic illness. This fiercely brave collection of prose poems presents
past and future horrors through a series of memories that slip in and out of a dream
realm. The collapsing philosophical, clinical, and personal registers expose the
permanently fractured self– and map the way the body attempts to negotiate the embodied
and disembodied experience and realities of living with Crohn’s disease.